abstract:Matthew Michael Carnahan (sometimes identified as Matt Carnahan) is an American screenwriter who wrote the feature films The Kingdom (2007), and the film adaptations of both the hit BBC television drama serial State of Play and the novel White Jazz. Carnahan also wrote the screenplay for Lions for Lambs for United Artists.
In short, the movie, written by MatthewMichaelCarnahan and directed by Redford, has all the indignation of a wake-up call but no clear idea as to what we should be doing once awake.
You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to MatthewMichaelCarnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.